Chap. 135.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mathews county
to appropriate funds to erect a monument to the Confederate soldiers of the
said county.
Approved March 5, 1908.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of supervisors of Mathews county are hereby authorized, at their dis-
cretion, to donate out of the county funds a sum not exceeding five hun-
dred dollars for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of
the Confederate soldiers of Mathews county who served in the Confed-
erate army during the civil war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one to
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, such appropriation to be made as a
whole, or paid out in installments as the board may determine. The
said board of supervisors of Mathews county are to select the site of the
said mounment on the courthouse square, or other public grounds at
the county seat of Mathews county, and the said monument shall be
erected on the site so selected by the board of supervisors.